Hankley Common, Beaconsfield and Royal St George’s golf clubs have been praised for their quality of ecological stewardship. As the environment continues to move up the agenda within the golf club management sector, clubs are self-policing environmental standards with help

This story refers to a water audit that took place in 2006. The money Cowglen received was also in 2006 Cowglen Golf Club in Scotland has received £11,000 after it examined its water costs and usage in detail to ensure

The landscape of a golf course should be unique; every course has its own character and charm. Many of our best courses simply rely on what, as the old golf course architects said, “God gave us in the land”. Of

The current trend in building golf courses of over 7,000 yards which, quite simply, are no fun for the average player, is one of the more disturbing features of the modern game. Despite modern club technology, it is still the

The Hotchkin Course at The National Golf Centre in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, has been rated the 59th best golf course in the world by Golf Magazine. As the course is run by the EGU (English Golf Union) and EWGA (English Women’s

The ‘membership crisis’ is probably more crucial than any other facing clubs today. So here are a few more thoughts on the subject. It is no use existing clubs fighting each other for members: unattached golfers – ‘nomads’ – have

As winter draws closer, the number of visiting parties decrease and the frequency of member visits to the course start to decline, it is a time of year when thoughts should be turning to winter work. Clubs have the opportunity

While all players would love the summer condition of putting surfaces to be retained in the UK and northern Europe, there is an inevitable and inescapable impact from changing seasons. As the sun gets lower in the sky and daylight

The role of the PGA Europro Tour in nurturing talents of the future has been highlighted as Lee Slattery has joined an ever-expanding list of former Europro players that have risen to the heights of European Tour winner. His maiden

The English Golf Union (EGU), the governing body for men’s amateur golf in England, has announced that Nigel Edwards – the captain of last month’s successful Walker Cup team – is its new director of coaching. Edwards, 43, is currently

According to research group SPORTS MARKETING SURVEYS INC, the average age of the English golf club member is rising. Clubs face a stark choice – get more youngsters in, or face a lingering decline. “For a club to continue to

The Cheshire Union of Golf Clubs (CUGC) has become aware that forgeries of discount cards have been in circulation and in use at Cheshire clubs. The CUGC has over 100 affiliated clubs with about 40,000 registered members. “For the benefit

There was a time when simply having a bar and dining facility at a golf club guaranteed that members and visitors would stay post round and use the facilities. However, over recent years just having such a facility doesn’t necessarily

An armed robbery at Perival Park Golf Club in London has been thwarted by firearms officers, the Flying Squad – and a 66-year-old woman who was about to have a lesson at the club. Late last month men with covered

The RSPCA has launched a nationwide fundraising event for which it is keen to enlist the support of golf clubs. Taking place on Sunday, October 30, 2011, it wants clubs to host a ‘Big Sunday Lunch’, using only Freedom Food-assured

Neil Sjoberg, the manager of Epping Golf Club who built his club from scratch, has revealed that he uses glass for sand in his course’s bunkers, as part of his club’s environmental strategy. Epping was built in 1996, but due

During the Easter holidays Epping Golf Club hosts its annual ‘Mighty Masters’ golf tournament. This free golf day is advertised to novice junior golfers and their parents who play their golf on driving ranges and pitch and putt courses, or

Despite being a club that has hosted the final qualifying round for the Open Championship several times, Lytham Green Drive is by no means a financial juggernaut, even in an era of golf’s tight purse strings. So it was of

Described as the one ‘they all want to play’, the West Course, or Burma Road, is arguably Britain’s most famous golf course. It has, for instance, been the host of the World Match Play Championship since 1964, supplying it with

This article takes us to a slightly different perspective at a level we seldom look at on the course – right down to a few millimetres off the soil surface. But for a change we are looking at the ‘doing’

Drainage and irrigation both depend on a few similar phenomena such as gravity, hydraulic laws, the behaviour of water molecules and so on. The one area that is very critical to both these subjects and can be modified and managed

The parent company of TopGolf, which runs driving ranges in England, has been named as one of the Daily Telegraph’s ‘Top 1,000 Brightest Businesses’. Golf Entertainment International generates sales in the UK of between £5 million and £500 million, and has

More than 11,500 golfers have entered the inaugural HowDidiDo order of merit which runs until the end of this October. The competition is open to any member of a golf club registered at HowDidiDo – Europe’s largest golfing community –

Nominees for this year’s golf industry awards have been announced by Golf Tourism Scotland (GTS), the industry’s national trade body. The annual GTS Gold Standard Awards celebrate the best in Scottish golf tourism by recognising leading transport and golf tour

Probably the biggest area of turf supply is the finishing off of tee constructions and bunker refurbishments during the winter months. The turf will vary depending on the type of surface and the situation. A few courses are blessed with

One of the most famous golf clubs in the world – The Belfry – has begun marketing itself to beginner golfers. The Midlands golf club, which has hosted the Ryder Cup four times and was the venue for the GCMA

A group of homeless men have begun camping by a pitch and putt golf course in Hove, Sussex. The group moved into Kingsway Multi-Play on Saturday, October 8, and are sleeping under archways that are adjacent to the course. The